Curriculum Platform

Draft Curriculum Platform

Curriculum encompasses the principles, goals, instructional practices, and materials that organize the learning environment. A quality pubic school curriculum enables all students to realize their full intellectual, physical, and social potential. It prepares our youth to be lifelong learners capable of pursuing meaningful, productive and fulfilling lives that contribute to the future of a democratic and humane society.

Toward these ends, Save Our Schools supports education policies that provide school communities with sufficient and equitable resources to provide quality curricula to all public school students that are:

Developed by professional educators in consideration of local school communities and national/global realities

Is developed by schools and their communities free of interference from political and corporate interests

Allows for flexibility and diversity of curriculum goals responsive to the needs and desires of local school communities

Ensures continual updating and improvement of curricula and instruction through on-going, collaborative self-study by school communities.

Enacted by professional educators with appropriate expertise and certification

Provides equitable resources to every school to employ a full staff of qualified and certified professionals to enact the curricula in every subject and specialty area

Provides resources to hire professional support staff from a variety of fields (social workers, medical personnel, IT specialists, etc.) to ensure optimal learning environments in every classroom.

Offers a range of classroom practices that are developmentally appropriate to the social and intellectual level of the students.

Provides a wide range of flexible groupings to encourage individual, social and one-on-one learning opportunities for every child.

Save Our School is dedicated to public education as the cornerstone of a democratic society. We are committed to education policy and actions that allow students, teachers, families, and communities to work together to meet the needs of all children.